VDI is the most exciting concept to be introduced to the business technology landscape in the last decade. The platform is easy to understand. VDI is an infinitely scalable, cloud based super computer, that can be accessed from any computer, phone, or iPad in the world. Essentially, accessing the system is as simple as opening a website or application on your desktop. Provided you have a stable internet connection, you will be able to remotely control a computer that can handle any amount of workload without missing a beat! Even while providing up to 10 users with their own private desktop simultaneously. The beauty of this system is that the user only pays when they use the machine, allowing unrestricted access to a $10,000+ computer for the hourly price of a cup of coffee.
Why Regent5 VDI?
CAD applications are some of the most demanding workloads you can run; it takes millions of GPU and CPU cycles to complete the complex calculations needed to work with CAD models. Until recently, the only way to deliver that much power was for each engineer to have his own local workstation. This approach prohibited organizations from gaining the benefits that VDI can provide. But Regent5 with partnership of AWS and improved advancements in VDI industry, these prohibitions are no longer valid. There are many benefits to running CAD on a virtual desktop, but three of the most important ones are performance of mobility, survivability and security.
By using VDI CAD models, engineering drawings and other documents are stored in the secure datacenter, making them much more secure than having them stored outside the datacenter.
There used to be significant barriers that prevented VDI from being a practical solution for CAD applications, but in recent years many of these barriers have collapsed. The benefits of VDI are many, so if your company uses CAD applications you should take a look and see if VDI could be a valid solution.
If an engineer is working on a CAD model on a local system and a catastrophic event happens, those models will probably be lost. The associated cost of time lost in the recreation of models can be very high. With VDI, CAD models are stored on enterprise storage and protected using enterprise best practices; thus, the likelihood of losing data is greatly reduced.
There used to be significant barriers that prevented VDI from being a practical solution for CAD applications, but in recent years many of these barriers have collapsed. The benefits of VDI are many, so if your company uses CAD applications you should take a look and see if VDI could be a valid solution.
With VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), organizations are able to run virtual desktops and applications from their data center or cloud resource, instead of running them on physical machines. The benefits of VDI are known universally. They include:
